Paul Campaign Rejects Racist Claims

By

Douglas Belkin And

Danny Yadron

December 27, 2011

DES MOINES, Iowa—Ron Paul has come under fire for racially derogatory comments in newsletters he published some two decades ago, but many Iowa voters who first got to know the Texas congressman almost a quarter century ago aren't buying the idea that he is a bigot.

"It doesn't make sense to me," said Arleigh Clemens, a 74-year-old retired manager of a construction-supply company and the co-chairman of the Johnson County...